York Little Theatre Announces 2010-11 Season

YLT announced its 2010-11 Season and it features a variety of productions--from character studies, to satires, to children's stories, to blockbuster musicals, to adventure, to suspense, to powerful, edgy pieces. For 77 years York Little Theatre has provided South Central Pennsylvania to a window to the performing arts.

The schedule for the 2010-11 Season includes season opener, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Broadway's musical comedy by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin which introduces six preteen misfits desperate to win the spelling bee of their lives. It runs from September 24 - October 2, 2010. The Children's Series will begin with Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, October 29 - November 7, 2010. When the greatest detective finds himself under house arrest, he turns to a gang of street urchins to solve his mysteries. Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat runs December 3 - 19, 2010 and tells the biblical story of Joseph, favorite son of Jacob, who is sold into slavery by eleven jealous brothers.
YLT rings in the New Year with the first of its Studio Series of plays, The Shape of Things, a drama by Neil LaBute. It is the story of Evelyn, an iconic artist, who pushes artistic license to the limits as she molds her new boyfriend into a more confident and attractive man. It runs January 14 - 21, 2011. February 11 - 21, 2011, YLT presents The Top Secret Princess Detective Agency, a Children's Series production which asks the question, "who do you call to protect the kingdom when Snow White is asleep, Rapunzel is stuck in the tower and Cinderella can't decide which shoes to wear?" The answer is "their younger sisters, of course!"

Blood Brothers, a musical by Willy Russel, next in the Studio Series, runs March 18 - 27, 2011. It tells the story of fraternal twins split at birth but who are drawn together throughout their lives. Michael Frayn's hilarious comedy, Noises Off, runs April 29 - May 8. It's the story of an acting troupe whose personal dramas supersede those on stage and real life becomes more of a farce than any playwright could conceive.

Frederick Knott's classic thriller, Wait Until Dark, runs May 27 - June 5, 2011. It is the story of a blind woman fighting for her life, alone in her apartment, against a gang of ruthless criminals led by a violent psychotic. The Adventures of Zorro runs June 24 - July 3, 2011, and is the classic, swashbuckling adventure of Zorro, the masked bandit who vows to avenge the helpless and punish the cruel. The 2011 Season closes with the hit musical, Rent, by Jonathan Larson, which runs July 29 - August 14 and is about a group of disjointed young artists who struggle to survive and create under The Shadows of capitalism, prejudice and the spread of AIDS.

More information and tickets are available by calling the box office at 717-854-5715, 11 - 6, Monday through Friday, or visiting www.ylt.org.

York Little Theatre is a nonprofit community theatre which values and nurtures the irreplaceable role of the arts and is dedicated to engaging and enriching its entire, diverse community in the dramatic arts through a broad range of professionally directed, entertaining, stimulating, and sometimes provocative performances.

York Little Theatre is located at 27 South Belmont Street, York PA, just south of Market Street at the intersection of I83. York Little Theatre is a proud member of The Cultural Alliance of York.

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